The sudden and dramatic lockdowns in Australia resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic brought great uncertainty and much change during 2020. This review concentrates on the impacts of these contextual changes on Australian unions and collective bargaining. Union efforts to cooperate with governments in policy-making and with employers at a workplace level were greeted with applause. But other arenas, as the crisis moderated, saw more traditional adversarialism. In particular, the failure of the parties to agree on legislative change meant that the government’s ‘omnibus’ bill, presented to parliament in December, would prove controversial and strongly contested in the new year. The structure and process of collective bargaining seemed to change remarkably little in 2020. A closer examination of the practice and outcomes of collective bargaining, however, suggests continued difficult times for workers and unions.

COVID-19大流行在澳大利亚造成的突然而戏剧性的封锁在2020年带来了巨大的不确定性和重大变化。本文的重点是这些背景变化对澳大利亚工会和集体谈判的影响。工会为在决策中与政府以及在工作场所与雇主合作而做出的努力表示热烈的掌声。但是随着危机的缓和，其他领域也出现了更多的传统对抗主义。尤其是，当事双方未能就立法改革达成共识，这意味着政府在12月提交议会的“综合”法案将在新的一年中引起争议并引起激烈的争论。集体谈判的结构和过程在2020年似乎变化不大。仔细研究一下集体谈判的做法和结果，